Sentences with phrase «of academic law libraries»

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

I am currently writing an article which basically looks at and updates a piece I published five years ago on the future of academic law libraries.

CALL or CanLII or one of the academic law libraries could host the work (or a new site could be set up).

The fist of the academic law libraries to abandon KF Modified was the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library.

This reality has required me seriously to consider the function of an academic law library in the digital age.

The concept of the online course, now fighting its way to legitimacy, may be the last straw to the centrality of the academic law library in the United States.

Outside of the academic law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks section of Catherine Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area

Not exact matches

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources

Below is the letter from Annette Demers on behalf of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL / ACBD) and John Papadopoulos and Jeanne Maddix on behalf of the Canadian Council of Academic Law Library Directors which was also endorsed by Robert Thomas on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Association.

One would think that West would have the technology in place to detect suspected password sharing and Hodnicki's point, echoed by Betsy McKenzie, director of the Suffolk University Law School Library, is that library and academic users are a key «market» for this kind of technology.

So the onus comes back to major academic libraries (and national law libraries where they exist) to take up the responsibility to purchase paper versions of key resources for as long as they are able to afford it.

Given that law libraries, whether academic, courthouse or private law firm, are constantly under space pressures, does this mean that we should be discarding the other 80 - 94 % of the collection and using the space for something else?

Would there be an academic law library willing to host the Table of Contents?

About 120 prominent law librarians from around the world — primarily from academic, legislative and court house libraries — have arrived in Toronto and are enjoying the first day of programming.

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

From a budget perspective, academic libraries generally and law libraries in particular have not had too onerous a time of maintaining their collections of monographs (though the time required to monitor the publishers» lists and select relevant titles can be onerous indeed).

As many academic law libraries are open to the public and are a filler of the Access to Justice, it's important that the library has resources available to them.

For large academic libraries, it's simply cheaper and easier to use unmodified Library of Congress classification schedules to organize their law collections, despite the disadvantages for Canadian researchers.

Although I work in a private law library while the report deals with academic libraries, I found the report very interesting; a number of challenges that it identifies are also faced by private law libraries.

The directors of the Canadian academic law libraries recently met with representatives of the national library to get them to purchase the silver halide fiche from the LLMC project so that the digital records are preserved in and for Canada.

The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collectiolaw libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collectioLaw» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.

Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership... [more]

The greatest impediment to the Osgoode library's goal of fully integrating itself into the academic and social fabric of the law school was physical: Though the library was large and spread over five floors in the law school building, the entrance to the library was poky and hidden in a remote corner of the basement level.

Most academic law library and law society websites include some research guides or bibliographies — here are some of the ones I use the most:

Earlier this month, the International Labour Organization and a group of academic partners that includes the Yale and Cornell law school libraries launched GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), a program that will give users in more than 115 developing countries free access to a wide range of essential legal information.

University of Ottawa Law Library's Law Research Guides are using the very versatile LibGuides format which is popular with many academic libraries.

In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing, as well as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.

Traditional library metrics are less helpful for law firm libraries compared to public or academic libraries; for example, circulation statistics are often used as an indicator of library usage and what parts of the library collection are in highest demand.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has just released a report on Academic Law Library Statistics 2007 - 2008.

[Source: ALL - SIS Newsletter — Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries]

Updates address issues that are both emerging and long - standing, and the archives are a great library of information from some top academics and practitioners in this area of law.

So, the title is likely referring to the management of a Library, Research, or Information Services, or KM operations, within the context of a law firm or academic law library setting.

The group is comprised of four member libraries - two academic law libraries, the Georgetown Law and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Informationlibraries - two academic law libraries, the Georgetown Law and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information Archilaw libraries, the Georgetown Law and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Informationlibraries, the Georgetown Law and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information ArchiLaw and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information ArchiLaw School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal InformationLibraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information ArchiLaw Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal InformationLibraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information Archive.

Stephann Makri, Studying Academic Lawyers» Information Seeking to Inform the Design of Digital Law Libraries, BULL.

As noted in the American Association of Law Libraries Access to Justice White Paper, legal research instruction has always been core to academic librarianship.

There is, however, another tool called Perma.cc that's open widely to all courts, law faculties, journals and academic libraries (see here for a list of partners).

While the drivers in academic and private law libraries might be different, all of us are dealing with the same basic problems.

In Friday's Law Librarian Conversations podcast (formerly the Law Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librariLaw Librarian Conversations podcast (formerly the Law Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librariLaw Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librarilaw libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public libraries.

Almost all Canadian law libraries outside of the law schools have rejected this belief, but the academic law libraries hold fast.

One of my colleagues among the Canadian academic law library directors recently conducted a survey of our libraries to discover who continues to subscribe to The Canadian Abridgment in print and why.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking... [more]

Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic, research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are secondary sources, not primary sources of law.

The case law seems to suggest that, rather than deciding public access policies based solely on considerations of the public or private nature of their universities, the amount of public funding received, or their library's depository status, librarians can consider the individual characteristics of their own universities — the university's mission, their patrons» needs, their financial circumstances, and the place they see for their academic library in the larger community.

In a survey conducted by the Academic Law Libraries section of the American Association of Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 20Law Libraries section of the American Association of Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 20Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 20law librarianship from 1957 to 2006.

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While the copies of early (pre-1930) law reports and statutes in both academic and private (law firm) libraries are disintegrating from age and overuse, mint - condition copies of them will be preserved in Osgoode's special collections.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.

Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership of this type of customized search engine since Google search engines customized by Universities are eligible for «ad - free» sites (the foregoing link includes Google ads as part of the search results, something which I would prefer to do without).

I think it would be especially useful for academic librarians to have insight into the way in which lawyers use firm libraries, and the kind of information they seek — useful in that we would be better able to equip our students (who will be those lawyers) while in law school.

This is especially so in academic law libraries, where we are losing or have already lost our connection to the «technical» aspects of our profession and are unfamiliar with resources outside of law.